Patent GB-191202763-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Printing, Checking and Delivering Tickets.
Inventor: FRIEDLEIN HEINRICH
Filed: 1912-02-02
Granted: 1913-01-30
Abstract: 2763. Friedlein, H. Feb. 3, 1911, [Convention date]. Machines with types separate or detached for printing tickets; record-controlled type-wheel actions.-Relates to a machine for printing railway and like tickets, summing the monetary value of the tickets, and printing a checkrecord on a strip, the machine being of the kind in which each ticket is printed from a corresponding printing-plate adapted to be inserted in the machine and formed with perforations for controlling the adding-mechanism. (1) Each printing-plate 1, Fig. 13, prints only the constant matter 2 for a particular station, and the perforations x or the like are adapted to control through racks &c. 13, Fig. 1, means, such as type-wheels 16 for printing varying matter such as the fare, means for operating the adding- mechanism 18, and means for selecting a ticket a ticket blank from a series of magazines 29. The machine is also provided with numbering and dating-wheels 63, Fig. 2, and with a type 64, such as a circle with an inscription, for printing a private mark, the type being carried by a spindle 65 which can be set by a crank reading over a scale 66. (2) The machine is driven by a motor geared to a shaft 8 provided with a one-revolution clutch or catch for coupling the cam-shaft. When a printing-plate is inserted, it engages a bell-crank lever 4 and actuates through a link 6, an arm 7 arranged to start the motor and to release the catch, the cam-shaft making one revolution and then being arrested by the arm 7 tripping the catch: A number of identical tickets can be printed by locking out the arm 7. (3) The racks are geared through pinions 14 and double racks 17 with pinions 18 on shafts provided with torquesprings. During the rotation of the shaft 8, a cam 11 permits a lever 12 to move back and release the racks 13, which are thereupon moved back by the springs until the tips 13<a> of the racks enter the holes x in the plate, the movement of the racks being transmitted through pinions 15 to the fare-printing wheels 16 and through the pinions 18 and ratchet-couplings to the adding-wheel. The detents for the adding- wheels consist of spring-pressed pins engaging notched wheels. The racks 13 are restored to the initial position by the lever 12. Record-controlled sheet-feeding arrangements. -(1) The ticket - blanks, which may have characteristic colours or stripes to denote the class &c., are stored in magazines 29, Figs. 4 and 6, the required blank being selected by a special perforation in the printing-plate 1, this perforation controlling one of the racks 13. The tickets are ejected by pushers 30 connected to arms 31 loose on a shaft 32 and pressed by springs 33 against a retaining-bar 34 secured by arms 35 to the shaft 32. The rack 13 for the special perforation actuates through its rack 17 and a lever 42, Fig. 1, a bolt 43 formed with notches 44 adapted to permit the passage of lugs 45 on the arms. During each cycle, a cam engaging a roller 406 moves the retaining- bar 34 away from the arms and the special perforation sets the bolt to release one of the arms and permit its spring 33 to move the corresponding pusher forward and eject a ticket-blank from the selected magazine on to a table 47 described below. The retaining-bar is returned by a spring 36. (2) To ensure the ejection of warped ticket-blanks, each of the pushers is bevelled and rounded at the end and is arranged to work between two ribs 46, Fig. 7, which support the pile of ticket-blanks. Roller inking-arrangements. - The types are inked by rollers 24, Fig. 1, which are operated by links 25, 26 from a cam 27 and are arranged to wipe over rollers 28. Platen-impression arrangements. -(1) The types 2, 16, 63, 64 are arranged in the same plane in stepped order and the platen 51, Figs. 2 and 4, is adapted to move as shown in Fig. 2 in a series of cycloidal paths, impression from one set of types being effected at each cusp. For this purpose the platen is spring-mounted on the table 47 which is mounted at the left on a slide 48 and at the right on cranks 52 carried by pinions gearing with racks 54. The table is connected by a link 57 to a slotted lever 55 operated by a crank 56. When the table commences to travel, it releases a rail 60 which grips the ticket-blank to the table. During the travel of the table, catches 61 on the rail engage and retain the ticket-blank until it is engaged by lips 62 at the end of the table. The rail is mounted on the framework by inclines y and is tensioned by springs x, the arrangement permitting the rail to follow the initial movements of the table. The ticket is ejected from the machine when the table is in the extreme lefthand position. (2) A check-record is printed on a strip which is led over a platen 68, Fig. 1, secured to a frame 70 carrying the delivery-spool 67 and the take-up spool 69. The frame is lifted during each cycle by a spring-operated lever 72 controlled by a cam 73, the frame being engaged by a slotted guide 71, which constrains the platen to move along the path shown for impression against the fare-printing wheels 16 and in some cases against the destination-type. Line-spacing mechanism.-The take-up spool 69, Fig. 1, is provided with a ratchet-wheel which is operated during the down-stroke of the frame 70 by a pawl 74 on a link 75. Locking-devices.-When the strip breaks or is exhausted, a bolt 78, Fig. 1, is automatically projected into the slot 3 for the printing-plates, thereby preventing actuation of the machine. For this purpose the strip is engaged by a feeler 76 adapted when the strip breaks or is exhausted to engage on the down-stroke of the frame with a lever 77 connected to the bolt.